ITEMs, not RECORDs. I doubt you have any 536-byte keys in your database. HTH! btw Suprtool does not "throw up". ;-) > -----Original Message----- > From: Venkataraman Ramakrishnan [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 4:22 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Suprtool Help > > > Hello Everybody, > > I am trying to remove non-unique duplicates in a dataset > using SUPRTOOL. > > > I am following the approach as is given in the SUPRTOOL Manual, which > goes something like this. > > Get all such non-unique records into say file-1 using dup only record. > Use dup none record on file-1 and get a file-2 which has only unique > records. > Load file-2 into a table. > But here am facing a problem. My record-length is 536 and > when I try to > load the table it throws up the following error. > "Error: TABLE only works with items <=3D 256 bytes long". > > Any workarounds or suggestions ?? > > Venkat=20 > > * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * > * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html * > * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *